Mylassa (beetle)

Mylassa
Mylassa pectinicornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
(unranked): Camptosomata
Subfamily: Cryptocephalinae
Tribe: Mylassini
Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso, 2021
Genus: Mylassa
Stål, 1857

Mylassa is a genus of case-bearing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae.[1][2] It is the only member of the tribe Mylassini within the subfamily Cryptocephalinae.[1] There are thirteen described species distributed in the southern part of South America.[3][4]

Species

  • Mylassa crassicollis (Blanchard, 1851)
  • Mylassa daccordii Sassi, 2025
  • Mylassa ferruginea Sassi, 2025
  • Mylassa flavolimbata Sassi, 2025
  • Mylassa frigens Monrós, 1949
  • Mylassa fuliginosa Sassi, 2025
  • Mylassa longicornis Sassi, 2025
  • Mylassa mirabilis Sassi, 2025
  • Mylassa monrosi Sassi, 2025
  • Mylassa obliquata (Suffrian, 1863)
  • Mylassa pectinicornis (Suffrian, 1866)
  • Mylassa postmediana Sassi, 2025
  • Mylassa rubronotata (Blanchard, 1851)

Synonyms

Mylassa chacallaoi Monrós, 1949 is a junior synonym of Mylassa obliquata (Suffrian, 1863) in Sassi, 2025. Also, Mylassa discariana Monrós, 1949 and Mylassa fasciatipennis Stål, 1857 are junior synonyms of Mylassa crassicollis (Blanchard, 1851) in Sassi, 2025. Also, Mylassa socia Stål, 1857 is a junior synonym of Mylassa rubronotata (Blanchard, 1851) in Sassi, 2025 [plus comments on the older synonym Pachybrachys aurantipennis Brèthes, 1929]).

References

  1. ^ a b Gómez-Zurita, J.; Cardoso, A. (2021). "Molecular systematics, higher-rank classification and Gondwanan origins of Cryptocephalinae leaf beetles". Zoologica Scripta. 50 (5): 592–615. doi:10.1111/zsc.12501. hdl:10261/250516.
  2. ^ "Mylassa Stål, 1857". GBIF. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  3. ^ Federico A. Agrain; Maria Lourdes Chamorro; Nora Cabrera; Davide Sassi; Sergio Roig-Juñent (2017). "A comprehensive guide to the Argentinian case-bearer beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Camptosomata)". ZooKeys (677): 11–88. doi:10.3897/ZOOKEYS.677.10778. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5537999. PMID 28769688. Wikidata Q33129256.
  4. ^ Davide Sassi (2025). "Taxonomic revision of the South American genus Mylassa Stål, 1867 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae) with the description of eight new species". Zootaxa. 5683 (3): 301–359. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5683.3.1. ISSN 1175-5334. Wikidata Q135921980.

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link).
  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.
  • Media related to Mylassa at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Mylassa (beetle) at Wikispecies
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